92-Year-Old UP Woman Goes Back To School, Other Women Follow

Salima Khan, born in around 1931 and was married at the age of 14 -- two years before the end of British colonial rule in India.

An Indian great-grandmother aged 92 has learned to read and write after going to school for the first time and inspiring others to join her, media and officials said Wednesday.

Salima Khan, born in around 1931 and who was married at the age of 14 -- two years before the end of British colonial rule in India -- had a lifelong dream of being able to read and write.

Ms Khan, from Bulandshahr in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, said there were no schools in her village when she was a girl.